Master the Art of Kubernetes Administration.
The Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) program offers a comprehensive training curriculum that equips aspiring Kubernetes administrators with the necessary skills, knowledge, and expertise to excel in their roles. As Kubernetes continues to gain traction as the industry-standard container orchestration platform, the demand for skilled administrators is on the rise.
The CKA program, developed and endorsed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), ensures that certified professionals possess a deep understanding of Kubernetes concepts and are capable of managing complex containerized applications with ease.
Overview
From the cloud to hybrid environments and on-premise data centers, Kubernetes is essential to managing containerized applications, making it one of the highest-demand IT skills. Set your IT career up for success by learning the key concepts needed to build and administer a Kubernetes cluster, including application lifecycle management, configuring security, and more.
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Skills Covered
- Understand storage classes, persistent volumes
- Understand volume mode, access modes and reclaim policies for volumes
- Understand persistent volume claims primitive
- Know how to configure applications with persistent storage
- Evaluate cluster and node logging
- Understand how to monitor applications
- Manage container stdout & stderr logs
- Troubleshoot application failure
- Troubleshoot cluster component failure
- Troubleshoot networking
- Understand deployments and how to perform rolling update and rollbacks
- Use ConfigMaps and Secrets to configure applications
- Know how to scale applications
- Understand the primitives used to create robust, self-healing, application deployments
- Understand how resource limits can affect Pod scheduling
- Awareness of manifest management and common templating tools
- Manage role based access control (RBAC)
- Use Kubeadm to install a basic cluster
- Manage a highly-available Kubernetes cluster
- Provision underlying infrastructure to deploy a Kubernetes cluster
- Perform a version upgrade on a Kubernetes cluster using Kubeadm
- Implement etcd backup and restore
- Understand host networking configuration on the cluster nodes
- Understand connectivity between Pods
- Understand ClusterIP, NodePort, LoadBalancer service types and endpoints
- Know how to use Ingress controllers and Ingress resources
- Know how to configure and use CoreDNS
- Choose an appropriate container network interface plugin
Prerequisites
There are no pre-requisites for this exam.
Target Audience
This certification is for Kubernetes administrators, cloud administrators and other IT professionals who manage Kubernetes instances.
Module 1: Course Introduction
- The Linux Foundation{
- The Linux Foundation{ Training
- The Linux Foundation{ Certifications
- The Linux Foundation{ Digital Badges
- Laboratory Exercises, Solutions and Resources
- Things Change in Linux and Open Source Projects
- E-Learning Course: LFS258
- Platform Details
Module 2: Basics of Kubernetes
- Define Kubernetes
- Cluster Structure
- Adoption
- Project Governance and CNCF
- Labs
Module 3: Installation and Configuration
- Getting Started With Kubernetes
- Minikube
- kubeadm
- More Installation Tools
- Labs
Module 4: Kubernetes Architecture
- Kubernetes Architecture
- Networking
- Other Cluster Systems
- Labs
Module 5: APIs and Access
- API Access
- Annotations
- Working with A Simple Pod
- kubectl and API
- Swagger and OpenAPI
- Labs
Module 6: API Objects
- API Objects
- The v1 Group
- API Resources
- RBAC APIs
- Labs
Module 7: Managing State with Deployments
- Deployment Overview
- Deployments and Replica Sets
- DaemonSets
- Labels
- Labs
Module 8: Helm and Kustomize
- Helm Overview
- Helm
- Using Helm
- Kustomize Overview
- Labs
Module 9: Volumes and Data
- Volumes Overview
- Volumes
- Persistent Volumes
- Rook
- Passing Data To Pods
- ConfigMaps
- Labs
Module 10: Services
- Overview
- Accessing Services
- DNS
- Labs
Module 11: Ingress
- Overview
- Ingress Controller
- Ingress Rules
- Service Mesh
- Limitations
- Gateway API
- Labs
Module 12: Scheduling
- Overview
- Scheduler Settings
- Pod Specification
- Affinity Rules
- Taints and Tolerations
- Labs
Module 13: Logging and Troubleshooting
- Overview
- Troubleshooting Flow
- Basic Start Sequence
- Monitoring
- Plugins
- Logging
- Troubleshooting Resources
- Labs
Module 14: Custom Resource Definitions
- Overview
- Custom Resource Definitions
- Aggregated APIs
- Labs
Module 15: Security
- Overview
- Accessing the API
- Authentication and Authorization
- Admission Controller
- Network Policies
- Labs
Module 16: High Availability
- Overview
- Stacked Database
- External Database
- Labs
Module 17: Closing and Evaluation Survey
- Evaluation Survey
Module 18: Domain Review
- CKA Exam
- Exam Domain Review
Dates & Locations
July 6, 2026 - July 9, 2026
July 6, 2026 - July 9, 2026
September 1, 2026 - September 4, 2026
September 1, 2026 - September 4, 2026
November 2, 2026 - November 5, 2026
November 2, 2026 - November 5, 2026
Exam & Certification
This exam is an online, proctored, performance-based test that requires solving multiple tasks from a command line running Kubernetes.
Candidates have 2 hours to complete the tasks.
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